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Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine is Ray Bradbury's 1957 semi-autobiographical novel (Doubleday) about twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding's summer of 1928 in Green Town, Illinois, based on Waukegan; a fix-up of short stories, first of the Green Town books, with sequel Farewell Summer (2006).
Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera
Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera, alias "La Quica", reputed Medellín Cartel hitman under Pablo Escobar; convicted in Brooklyn in 1994 for the Avianca Flight 203 bombing, serving ten consecutive life sentences in California while claiming innocence.
Dandie Dinmont Terrier
Dandie Dinmont Terrier: small British border terrier, only dog breed named after a fictional character in Scott's Guy Mannering (1815). Pepper or mustard coat, silky topknot, weasel-like body; AKC-recognized 1886, a vulnerable native breed with 81 UK puppies registered in 2024.
Dandin
Dandin (दण्डिन्) was a Sanskrit poet and theorist of poetics who lived at Kanchipuram, capital of the Pallava dynasty, and wrote the Dashakumaracharita and Kavyadarsha.
Dandiya Raas
Dandiya Raas (also Dandiya Ras, dandiya stick dance) is a Gujarati folk dance performed with paired wooden sticks during Navratri, rooted in Krishna's raas legends and harvest rituals, with community variants like Kanabi, Maniaro, Padhar, and Mishra raas.
Dandong
Dandong (丹东), formerly Andong until 1965, is Liaoning's largest border prefecture-level city on the Yalu River opposite Sinuiju, North Korea; a 1906 treaty port handling most China-North Korea trade, with a 2024 World Heritage Yalu River estuary wetland.
Dandruff
Dandruff, the mild scalp end of seborrheic dermatitis, causes flaky, itchy scalp skin; linked to Malassezia yeast, sebum, and skin barrier dysfunction; treated with medicated shampoos.
Dandupalya (ದಂಡುಪಾಳ್ಯ) (film)
Dandupalya (ದಂಡುಪಾಳ್ಯ) is a 2012 Kannada crime film by Srinivas Raju, starring Pooja Gandhi and Makarand Deshpande, based on the real Dandupalya gang; it grossed about ₹40 crore on a ₹3 crore budget and spawned two sequels.
Dandy
A dandy is a man devoted to elegant, meticulous dress and grooming. The term dates to 1780; Beau Brummell (1778–1840) defined Regency dandyism, and Black dandyism reworked the style into self-expression and protest.
Dane Boersma
Dane Boersma (1954–2009) was an American dairy farmer who co-founded Dutch Bros. Coffee in Grants Pass, Oregon, in 1992 with his brother Travis, and died of ALS.
Dane Bowers
Dane Bowers (born 1979) is an English singer, songwriter, DJ and producer from R&B group Another Level, whose "Freak Me" topped the UK chart in 1998; later with True Steppers, Victoria Beckham, and Celebrity Big Brother 2010.
Dane Cook
Dane Cook (Dane Jeffrey Cook), American stand-up comedian and actor born 1972 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; platinum albums Harmful If Swallowed and Retaliation, first comedian with two No. 4 Billboard 200 debuts, brother's $12M embezzlement, documentary Funny Money.
Dane County
Dane County, Wisconsin: south-central county with county seat Madison, created 1836 and organized 1839, named for Nathan Dane. Second most populous Wisconsin county (590,375 est. 2025), fastest growing, with glaciated Yahara Lakes east and Driftless Region west.
Dane DeHaan
Dane DeHaan (Dane William DeHaan) is an American actor born 1986 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, known for Chronicle, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Life, Valerian, Oppenheimer, and the upcoming Neuromancer series.
Dane DiLiegro
Dane DiLiegro (born 1988, Lexington, Massachusetts) is an American creature actor and former pro basketball player, best known as the Predator in Prey (2022), with credits including American Horror Stories, Running Point, River, and Seasons.
Dane Morgan
Dane Morgan is a computational materials scientist and Harvey D. Spangler Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for fuel cell catalyst modeling and the 2024 computational discovery of fast oxygen conductors.
Dane Rudhyar
Dane Rudhyar, born Daniel Chennevière in Paris in 1895, was a French-born American composer and astrologer who reformulated astrology into the psychological, non-predictive humanistic astrology.
Danebury Hill Fort
Danebury Hill Fort (Danebury Hill Camp) is an Iron Age hillfort near Stockbridge, Hampshire: 5 ha, three banks and ditches, occupied c. 550–100 BC, and the most extensively excavated hillfort in Britain under Barry Cunliffe, 1969–1988.
Danegaptide
Danegaptide (ZP1609, GAP-134) is a rotigaptide-derived dipeptide gap junction modifier acting on connexin 43. Its phase 2 STEMI reperfusion-injury trial failed, and it is now in diabetic retinopathy development by Breye Therapeutics.
Danelaw
Danelaw (Old English Dena lagu, 'law of the Danes'): the Danish-law region of Anglo-Saxon England, traditionally from Yorkshire to Middlesex, bounded by the Alfred–Guthrum treaty, with the Five Boroughs and sokemen-based society.
Daneliya Tuleshova
Daneliya Tuleshova (Данэлия Тулешова) is a Kazakh singer, born in 2006, who won The Voice Kids Ukraine in 2017 and sang Kazakhstan's debut Junior Eurovision entry in 2018, finishing sixth.
Danes
Danes (dansker) are the North Germanic people of Denmark, named in Old Norse danir, Latin dani, Greek danoi. Distinct Viking Age society, sixth-century South Scandinavian hegemony, Jelling Christianization, ~6 million today.
Danesh Moazed
Danesh Moazed is a professor of cell biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Harvard Medical School, known for research on heterochromatin, RNA interference, and epigenetic inheritance.
Daneshkade
Daneshkade (دانشکده) is a Persian word meaning a university faculty or school, literally a place of knowledge, also the name of a monthly literary journal published in Tehran.
Danevirke
Danevirke (Dannevirke, Danewerk): medieval Danish defensive wall system, about 30 km, crossing the Schleswig Isthmus in northern Germany; built from c. 450-500, reinforced in 737 and under Harald Bluetooth, brick-faced by Valdemar the Great; UNESCO World Heritage with Hedeby since 2018.
Danfeng Cai
Danfeng Cai is a biologist and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health since 2021, known for showing that YAP forms liquid-like nuclear condensates.
Danforth Music Hall
The Danforth Music Hall, also known as The Danforth, is a heritage concert theater at 147 Danforth Avenue in Toronto, opened in 1919 as Allen's Danforth Theatre.
Danfoss
Danfoss, also known as the DANFOSS Group, is a Danish family- and foundation-owned engineering company founded by Mads Clausen in Nordborg in 1933, making heating, cooling, drives, and hydraulics.
Dang Khac Vy
Đặng Khắc Vỹ (Dang Khac Vy) is a Vietnamese businessman who co-founded Vietnam International Bank (VIB) and chairs Mareven Food Holdings, a Russian instant-noodle producer.
Dang Ngoai
Dang Ngoai (Đàng Ngoài), the "outer region," was the northern polity of Dai Viet from the Gianh River northward, ruled by the Le kings and Trinh lords until 1786.